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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022

This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of … constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …

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Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests? : policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout

Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2019

We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of January 2012 that increased the salience of the...

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